“Israel must declare the war over, we have taken our troops out of Gaza anyway, there is no way to destroy it completely, and entering Rafah will not help. If you don’t realise it, we have already lost,” he said in the interview published yesterday.
Major General Aharon Haliva, a 38-year veteran of the military, was one of a number of senior Israeli commanders who said they had failed to foresee and prevent the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
In a statement, Regional Director of UNICEF, Adele Khodr, said that “in the past 72 three Palestinian children were killed in the latest military operation in Tulkarem in the West Bank and at least another 14 children were reportedly killed in Rafah, Gaza.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman has denounced in strongest terms the Israeli regime as responsible for the massacre and mass burial of Palestinians in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Tensions running high in the occupied West Bank as a group of Israeli settlers, backed by soldiers, raided a town in Ramallah injuring several Palestinians.
The leader of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned the US as a complicit in Israel’s genocidal war against the besieged Gaza Strip after the House of Representatives approved a 26-billion-dollar military aid for Israeli regime.
At least 48 Palestinians have been killed and several more injured as Israeli regime forces continue with air and artillery strikes across the Gaza Strip.
Rescuers have retrieved more than 200 Palestinian bodies, including women, children and elderly people from mass graves in Nasser Hospital yards in Khan Younis.
Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Al-Busaidi on Saturday called for efforts to bring an end to the Zionist regime’s crimes against Gazans and to send humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave.
Speaking at the meeting of the anti-narcotics headquarters on Saturday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that from the beginning of Iran's Islamic revolution victory, the Islamic Republic has been a pioneer in the serious fight against drug trafficking, but other countries have not fulfilled their responsibilities in this regard.
In a tweet on its X account, the UN office announced that two-thirds of the coordinated humanitarian missions in Gaza are facing obstacles or delays by Israeli occupation authorities. On average, it said, each mission encountered delays of at least five hours before being allowed to proceed.
“The siege has been ongoing since Thursday evening. The Israeli army is besieging the camp from all sides. No one can enter or leave it,” Mu’ayyad Shaa’ban, the head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, told Anadolu.
The president’s remarks came in an interview with the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, which mostly criticized the US for thwarting an Arab resolution project demanding full Palestinian membership in the United Nations.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution has lauded the commanders of the armed forces for their remarkable performance in the recent retaliatory Operation True Promise against Israel.
University students across the United States have voiced solidarity with pro-Palestine rallies after the police arrested activists at Columbia University on Thursday.
The US is considering sanctions against Israel’s extremist battalion, Netzah Yehuda, after a State Department panel recommended that Washington restrict arms sales to Israeli military units over credible accusations of human rights abuses.